The 2nd half starts tonight for about half of the teams (14, in case you were wondering), and Friday for the rest of them (including the Birds). So now is as good of a time as any to arbitrarily assign grades to the team. Unlike some other graders (like Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun and his grades), I am going to go by area other than individual player, then expand in the comments below...

It is getting harder and harder to write these posts. There are only so many ways to say the same thing, and everyone covering the Orioles has said it to the point of exhaustion. Let's take a look at what people are saying about the Birds…
The Roar from 34 says…
Good news: The Orioles had twice as many wins in May as they did in April.
Bad news: They won 10 games in May after on...

This is going to be one of those big idea columns. Not so much about the Orioles, or even baseball, but instead about what I think I am doing here.
I know I am one of thousands of voices floating around on the internet talking about this team in some sort of “official” capacity. Add to that the people commenting on these voices, the people talking in email or instant message or ...